Sentence examples for pattern of offensive from inspiring English sources
Ford was mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014, a tumultuous term of office which bounced between scandal and controversy, going beyond the usual political infighting of a city government, with an escalating pattern of offensive speech, erratic behaviour and public intoxication, and accusations of serious crimes including domestic violence, blackmail and assault.
SMU took some actions against the professor, and a panel found the comments to be "either sexual or inappropriately sexist in nature," and "consistent with an overall pattern of offensive, gender-specific statements".
There also is no attention given to the racial climate on the campus where this event was part of a pervasive pattern of racially offensive and arguably discriminatory conduct by faculty and students.
But when asked to explain why his boss engaged in this pattern of distributing such offensive material, he could only repeat, as Mr. Paladino has: "Bad judgment".
"To the contrary, our evidence and the personal testimony of Ms. Sterger clearly showed a pattern of lewd and offensive behavior by Mr. Favre that lasted all of the 2008 season," Conway said in the statement.
But if there is a pattern of behaviour that is offensive, humiliating or degrading to others, an employer is required to take action.
It was a profoundly squalid and offensive pattern of conduct, admitted only after some of the photographs began to emerge on the Web.
A: We don't like removing people's ability to comment on our content, but in some cases when a pattern of abusive, trolling or offensive behaviour is demonstrated, certain users can be banned from using the site.
First, any elected representative who engages in what you rightly call "a profoundly squalid and offensive pattern of conduct" of any sort should resign, because his or her presence demeans and delegitimizes the legislature in which he or she serves.
However, to be successful, one must prove a consistently repeated pattern of blatant and highly offensive conduct.
And this season, despite an uninspiring pattern of results, Tony Humes' team are playing a vibrant style of offensive football and providing goals, joy and hope, which is why home attendances are creeping back up towards the 5,000 mark.
